Operating mechanism for fare-registers.



J. H. SHOGKLEYn OPERATING MECHANISM FOR FARE REGISTERS. I

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1907.

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OPERATING BECHANISM FOR FARE-REGISTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed May 1'7, 1907. Serial No, 374,230.

b all whom it may concern;

lie it known that 1, JOHN H. Suoonnnr, a citizen of the brutal States, residing at North 'Girard, in the county of Erie and and leads therefrom at substantially right iiitate of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Operating Mechanism for Fare-Registers; and I ll do hereby declare the following'to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention. such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make" and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, -orining part of this specification.

My invention relates to operating mechanism for fare-registers and has for its object the providing of two pulleys secured together, to one of which the pull-cords are securel and to the other the cord leading to the fareregister is attached, and over which pulleys the said cords operate.

The features of my invention are hereini after fully set forth and explained, and llustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a plan-view of my device connected with a fare-register. Fig. 2 is an enlarged edgewise view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the same with a portion of the frame broken away.

In these. drawings A of a car, and A a transverse partition to which a fare-register is secured. Preferably in the corner formed by the walls A and A l secure the frame B of my device, and upon a pin E which are secured together into a unitary structure. and .are preferably grooved. The pulley D is preferably made considerably larger in diameter than the pulley E, and I f the periphery of the pulley I) the ends of pull cords F and F pass and are secured. upon hooks (1 under the rim of the pulley D. The pull-cords l and F each normally extend around substantially one half, or more, of the groove D in-the periphery of the pulley D, so that a pull upon either of these cords will rotate the pulley D and. pulley E substantially half of their circumference. The pull-cords F and F lead in opposite directions from the pulley D and a pull upon either of them rotates the pulleys D and E in 1' he same direction. In the peripb-. cry of the pulley E I make a' slot 0,

and unis a section of the side C in this frame I mount pulleys D and der the rim a hook e to which the end of a cord G passing through the slot 6 is secured.- This cord G passes around the groove E in the pulley in the direction of the arrow 6 angles to the line of each of the pull-cords F F to the fare-register.

in operation-a pull upon either of the pullcords F -or F rotates the pulleys D and E, and through the cord G operates the fareregister; after'which the fare-register mechanism (not shown) acting G upon the pulley E operates to return the pulleys D and E to their normal positions again ready for operation. In this manner I not only overcome the tendency of the ordinary cord pulley to abrade the part of the cord passing around the pulley and cause it to break at that point, but by use of my invention the pull of the operator upon the cord to operate the fare register is materially decreased.

Having thus shown and described my in vention so as to enable others to construct and use the same, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent of the United States is:

The combination in a device of the herein described class, of a frame, a pulley mount ed therein having peripheral groove and radially disposed openings in opposite edges of the pulley extending inwardly from the bottom of said peripheral groove, hooks on the inside of the pulley adjacent. to the in nor ends of said openings, and cords extend ing into sail openings so to engage said. hooks and passing substantially half Way around' 'the pulley and leadingin opposite directions, a smaller pulley secured to the side of the larger pulley having a peripheral groove and -a radially disposed opening extending inwardly from the bottom of said peripheral groove, a hook on the inside of this pulley adjacent to the inner end of said opening, and a cordextending into said opening so as to engage said hookand pass-1 ing substantially around this pulley and leading off at substantially a right angle to the cords on the larger as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix any signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. SHOCKLEY. Witnesses CALVI}? J. Hnvns, C. E. FLYNN.

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